 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1804 - 512 pages
...aft. s V Between thefe alternatives there is no middle ground. The conftitution is either a fuperior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legiflative afts, and like other afts, is alterable when the legiilature fhall pleafe to alter it.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 676 pages
...legislative Act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....legislative Act, contrary to the Constitution, is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written Constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall choose to alter it.(a) § 402. " In the United States, the principle in the English government, that... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it, or that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legistive acts, and like other acts, it is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it.... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1872 - 522 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or that the legislature may alter the Constition by an ordinary act. " Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is OD a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 706 pages
...aid is desired. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137, at page 177: "The constitution is either a superior paramount law,...a legislative act contrary to the constitution is Opinion Per Curiam. not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 848 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it ; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. "Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Cheerfully conceding that the majority have conscientiously arrived at a different conclusion, I have... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. Between these alternatives there is no middle ground....alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it." Passing now from the original and earlier development of the doctrine of the police power in the federal... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1892 - 228 pages
...in the celebrated case of Marbury v. Madison, declares: "The constitution is either a superior and paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it...legislative act contrary to the constitution is not a law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 284 pages
...legislative act repugnant to it; or that the Legislature may alter the Constitution by an ordinary Act. Between these alternatives, there is no middle ground....when the legislature shall please to alter it. If an Act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity,... | |
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The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and, like other Acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. 
